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Lucca Film Festival
Lucca Film Festival
Lucca Film Festival is an annual event that celebrates and promotes cinematographic culture. Through screenings, exhibitions, conferences and performances, the Festival has been able to captivate an ever-increasing audience with a program that ranges from experimental to mainstream films. Through the years, Lucca Film Festival has carved out a niche for itself, standing apart from the many other festivals thanks to its bold yet carefully studied programming. Over the years, great names of international filmmakers and well-known celebrities have attended Lucca Film Festival as invited guests; David Lynch, Oliver Stone, Jeremy Irons, Willem Dafoe, George Romero, Terry Gilliam, William Friedkin, Alfonso Cuarón, John Boorman, Rutger Hauer, Joe Dante, Aleksandr Sokurov, Susan Sarandon, Gabriele Salvatores, Ethan Hawke, Paul Schrader and Peter Greenaway, just to name a few. At the same time, the Festival has offered retrospectives of “old” glories while unearthing new talents. To top it all off, breathtaking Lucca serve as a stunning backdrop to an event that has now firmly established itself, becoming a highly anticipated and not-to-be-missed appointment in Italy and in Europe: the Lucca Film Festival.
Since its creation, the festival has always been committed to promoting contemporary films. Therefore, directors from all over the world can submit their films to the competitive section of the festival through the dedicated call for entries. The 2026 edition of Lucca Film Festival will be held September 26th-October 4th.
Lucca Film Festival has 3 competitions: The International Feature Film Competition, The International Short Film Competition and The "Lucca Film Festival for Future" Short Film Competition.
The 2026 will be the 22nd edition of the Lucca Film Festival International Feature Film Competition. In the previous editions important personalities of cinema like Cristi Puiu, Rutger Hauer, Philip Groening, Claudio Giovannesi, Daniele Ciprì, Massimo Gaudioso, Massimo Cantini Parrini, Lina Nerli Taviani had been part of the international jury.
The films shown during this competition are Italian premieres and last edition was won by "The cage is looking for a bird" by Malika Musaeva.
There are four awards: Best feature film prize (3000€), awarded by a jury of renowned guests from both the cinematographic and academic worlds; and Best feature film – university jury prize (awarded by an university jury), Best feature film - Popular jury and the Marcello Petrozziello Award.
For those who are interested in this competition, the last day for submissions is July 15, 2026, until midnight.
There are no limitations to the genre or topic of the films. The only requirements are the following: the films must be at least 60 minutes long and must not have been screened before January 1st, 2026. Moreover, they must be Italian premieres, so they cannot have been presented in any other Italian festival, shown on any online open platform or distributed in any other way in Italy.
For the 20th year in a row, it will take place the historic short films competition, whose winner will receive a 1000€ prize. Every year, the selection committee of this competition receives more than 500 films to evaluate. Among the directors who took part in earlier editions, there are celebrities like Adan Jodorowsky, son of the famous Chilean filmmaker.
The films have no limitations in genre and topic. The only requirement is that they cannot last more than 29 minutes. For the short films competition, the last day for submissions is July 15, 2026, until midnight.
Second edition of the new short film competition,:"Lucca Film Festival for Future", which was born thanks to the collaboration with the Sofidel Group, 2nd producer in Europe and 7th in the world for production capacity in the sector of paper for hygienic and domestic use (known in particular for the Regina brand), which has made sustainability a strategic lever of development and responsible growth to reduce its impact on natural capital and favour the transition towards a low carbon impact economy.
List of the selected films will be published on the festival’s website within September 10, 2026. During the festival the movies will be shown in the cinemas taking part in the event and on demand online.
The Lucca Film Festival, coordinated by Nicola Borrelli, is one of the key events organized and sponsored by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca.
The event's main sponsors are Banca Generali Private Wealth Management (Paolo Tacchi) e Banca Pictet. The organization of the Lucca Film Festival has also been possible thanks to Ministero della cultura – Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo, Miur, Regione Toscana, Fondazione Sistema Toscana, Manifatture Digitali Cinema, Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca, Sofidel, Fondazione Giacomo Puccini e Puccini Museum – Casa Natale, Audi Center Terigi Tenuta del Buonamico, Naturanda, Martinelli Luce, Futuro3D, Tecno Servizi, Ristorante Giglio, Palazzo Pfanner, Teatro del Giglio, ConfCommercio Lucca e Massa Carrara, Grand Universe Lucca, Grand Universe – La residenza, Over The Real, Teatro del Giglio di Lucca, Fondazione Giacomo Puccini e Puccini Museum – Casa Natale, Casa d’arte San Lorenzo, Accademia Cinema Toscana; Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, Istituto Luigi Boccherini e Liceo Artistico Musicale e Coreutico Augusto Passaglia, Liceo Classico N. Machiavelli, ISIS Pertini.
Thanks also to Rai Toscana, Rai Radio 3, Movieplayer.it, Film4 Life, Festival Scope, A.C.S.I. Associazione Centri Sportivi Italiani, Federazione Italiana Teatro Amatori (FITA), Trenitalia, Fic, Uicc, Cinit, Ucca, Arci, Fedic, Corte Tripoli, Circolo del Cinema di Lucca, Cineforum Ezechiele 25:17, Cinema Centrale, Astra e Moderno, Cinema Arsenale, Octocom, Università di Pisa, Università degli Studi Firenze, Fondazione Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, Pisa al Cinema, Cinema Arsenale, Cineteca Bologna, Cineteca Nazionale, Istituto Musicale Luigi Boccherini, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Italia, Associazione Donne all’Ultimo Grido, , SPAM! Rete per le arti contemporanee, Lucca Comics & Games, Photolux Festival, Lucca Classica Music Festival.
Come to the Lucca Film Festival and experience a full 360° immersion in both the cinema and the heart of Tuscany.
Type
Current Schedule
12/2025~10/2026
Has been held
21 Session
Timeline
Film collection begins
2025年12月1日Earlybird Deadline Deadline
2026年1月31日Regular Deadline Deadline
2026年6月1日Extended Deadline Deadline
2026年7月15日The film festival begins to be held
2026年9月26日The film festival ends
2026年10月4日
other information
Official website
https://www.luccafilmfestival.it/
Organizer Director
Nicola Borrelli
Event Address
Traversa Prima di via delle Tagliate di S. Anna, 64
Categories & Fees
International Short Films Competition
Short films, except for those which were never screened and distributed (in Italy and/or internationally), shall not date back to years prior to 2025. If the film is neither spoken nor Italian subtitled, it is required to send by (papery or digital) attachment an English transcription of the dialogues, in such a way as to allow the film subtitling. Each film maker may not enroll more than 4 works and in any case no more than one work each. The organization is undertaken to communicate the selection committee’s decisions to the participants, via notice on the Festival’s website and/or Facebook official Festival's page ( www.luccafilmfestival.it,https://www.facebook.com/luccafilmfest/ ), by September 10th, 2026.
Standard ￥156.8
International Feature Film Competition
No more than one film per artist will be selected; however, each artist is permitted to submit more than one film. The films shall be premieres in Italy. The application will be rejected if the film is available on the Internet, has been broadcasted, or has already been presented in an Italian film festival preceding the 2026 Lucca Film Festival. If the film is not in Italian or subtitled in Italian, it is mandatory to send - in addition to your submission, a copy of the dialogues in English. This is to enable the subtitling of all films. Only private and/or password-protected online screeners are accepted for the preview copy. Public and other type of screeners will not be considered. Only DCP or screening copies will be accepted. All accepted films will be screened once during the festival, with the option of an encore screening for select films/shorts blocks. The selected movies will also be available online on demand during the period of festival. All scheduling is purely at the discretion of the LFF staff. LFF pays only for the return shipment of the DCPs. The Lucca Film Festival DOES NOT PAY SCREENING FEES. By submitting your film, you acknowledge that the festival will not pay to present your work.
Standard ￥313.6
Lucca Film Festival for Future
Submitted short films must address the following themes: green, environmental protection, socially relevant issues, and new generations. Submitted short films must have been made no earlier than 2024. The film director must be no older than 35 years old. Each author can submit up to 4 works, but only one work per author will be selected. If the short film is not spoken or subtitled in Italian, it is mandatory to attach (paper or digital) a copy of the dialogues in English for subtitling purposes. By participating in the international competition LUCCA FILM FESTIVAL FOR FUTURE, the author of the work authorizes Sofidel S.p.A., and its assignees, completely free of charge, to use and/or disseminate and/or publish the work, both for exhibition and advertising and/or dissemination and/or promotional purposes, through any means of communication and dissemination, including but not limited to web channels, catalogs, corporate communication prints and/or any other means of dissemination, known today or developed in the future, including the Internet or other telematic networks, without any limitation, even temporal, either entirely or partially, with the broadest possible right to use even only parts of the work, without altering its content. The author of the work declares that he/she has, in fact, nothing to claim against Sofidel S.p.A. and/or its assignees, for any reason whatsoever, in connection with the use by Sofidel S.p.A. and/or its assignees of the work. The author of the work declares and warrants that the work does not violate any intellectual property rights and/or other rights of third parties. The author of the work shall indemnify and reimburse Sofidel S.p.A., and its assignees, for all costs (including legal expenses), expenses, damages, or other losses incurred or suffered by Sofidel S.p.A., and its assignees, or actions or proceedings brought against Sofidel S.p.A., and its assignees as a result of any actual or alleged infringement of third-party intellectual property rights claimed on the work itself.